John Lewis

John Lewis (21 February 1940-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D) from Georgia's 5th congressional district from 3 January 1987, succeeding Wyche Fowler. Lewis was a former leader of the SNCC group during the Civil Rights movement, serving as its chairman from 1963 to 1966, succeeding Charles McDew and preceding Stokely Carmichael.

Biography
John Lewis was born in Troy, Alabama on 21 February 1940, and he attended Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, taking part in sit-ins in the city while he was a young student. Lewis later took part in Freedom Rieds, and he served as Chairman of SNCC in 1963 to 1966, leading student activists in support of the Civil Rights movement, and Lewis decided to break with the radical elements of SNCC to take part in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965. Lewis and Hosea Williams led over 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, where they were attacked by state troopers, who used tear gas and night sticks against the demonstrators. After leaving SNCC in 1966, Lewis entered banking, and he was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1986 after previously being defeated in the 1977 election. Lewis was re-elected 14 times, and he was seen as a hardcore liberal, comparing Donald Trump to George Wallace.